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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 2013. ==Events== * January – A brief feud erupts between Blake Shelton and country legend Ray Price when Shelton criticized veteran country performers who don't agree with the direction in which the genre is going, claiming "(n)obody wants to listen to their grandpa's music." Price was offended and publicly expressed his disapproval in a Facebook post, prompting Shelton to issue an apology on Twitter. Several days later, Price accepted the apology. "I agree that he should be given a chance to restore his credibility with the millions of fans who were deeply offended by those hurtful words," Price wrote as part of his Facebook post responding to Shelton's apology.〔WENN, "Ray Price accepts Blake Shelton's apology over country music comments," MSN Entertainment, January 29, 2013. () Accessed 01-29-2013.〕 * January 21 – The first Nash FM-branded station -- a media brand and network owned by Cumulus Media -- is WNSH (Nash 94.7) in Newark, New Jersey (serving the New York City metropolitan area). The Nash FM brand focuses on current hits (along with scattered recurrents from the past 2-3 years); a year later, a Nash Icon brand will be added, mixing in current hits with songs from the 1980s onward. * February 17 – Mindy McCready, whose personal and legal problems overshadowed her promising future as a rising female vocalist of the late 1990s, is found dead of an apparent suicide at her home in Heber Springs, Arkansas. Her death came a month after the death of her boyfriend, songwriter David Wilson.〔Parker, Lindsey, "Report: Mindy McCready Dead Of Apparent Suicide," Our Country, Yahoo!, February 17, 2013. Retrieved 02-17-2013 ()〕〔Gray, Melissa, "Embattled country star Mindy McCready dead at 37," CNN.com, February 17, 2013. Retrieved 02-17-2013 ()〕 * March 2 – ''The Country Top 30 with Bobby Bones," a radio show hosted by Austin, Texas, radio personality Bobby Estell (aka Bobby Bones), debuts in syndication. * April 8 — Brad Paisley receives media attention over his song "Accidental Racist", a cut featuring LL Cool J from Paisley's album ''Wheelhouse''. The song becomes a source of controversy due to its lyrics addressing racism and slavery. * April 24 — The Chatham County, Georgia Grand Jury indicted Billy Currington on felony criminal charges of "abuse of an elder person by inflicting mental anguish" and "making terroristic threats". Both criminal charges stem from an April 15 incident involving Charles Harvey Ferrelle, with the indictment alleging that Currington made terrorist threats and drove too close to Ferrelle's boat in a manner that he nearly knocked the elderly man into the water. Currington – released after posting $27,000 bond – faces a prison term of 1 to 5 years if convicted. * July 7 — Randy Travis is hospitalized in critical condition with viral cardiomyopathy. Four days later, he suffers a stroke and undergoes surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. * August 10 — With 22 weeks at No. 1, "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line sets a new record for most weeks at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart, breaking a three-way tie of 21 weeks at No. 1 jointly held by Eddy Arnold ("I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)," 1947), Hank Snow ("I'm Movin' On," 1950) and Webb Pierce ("In the Jailhouse Now," 1955). "Cruise" benefited from changes in ''Billboard's'' methodology, made in 2012, from a country airplay-only chart to one that reflects all-genre airplay, music downloads and streaming, similarly to the Hot 100. The song had earlier spent five weeks at No. 1 in late December into January, began falling but never dropping out of the top 40, before rebounding in April following the release of a remix with Nelly and eventually reclaiming the chart's No. 1 position. * August 18 — Jody Rosen of ''New York'' coins the term "bro-country" to describe the genre's then-ongoing trend of hip-hop influenced country songs with a theme of partying. * August 23 — In an interview with AARP, Linda Ronstadt reveals she has Parkinson's Disease and can no longer sing. * October 16 — Record producer Tony Brown, best known for producing George Strait, is arrested for domestic assault against his wife. * December 15 – Numerous media outlets, from ''Rolling Stone'' to the ''USA Today'', prematurely reported that Ray Price had died from pancreatic cancer. The information came from Price's son, Cliff, who posted via Facebook his father's apparent passing, but it was later retracted, according to ''The Tennessean'' (which also published a news story on Price's death that was later removed).〔() Wilonsky, Robert, "Reports of country legend Ray Price’s death have been premature," ''Dallas Morning News'', December 15, 2013. Accessed 12-16-2013〕 Price died the next day, with family spokesman Bill Mack confirming the death.〔Cooper, Peter, "Ray Price, famed for his country shuffle, dies at 87," ''USA Today'', December 16, 2013. Accessed 12-16-2013 ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2013 in country music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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